Some people seem to think destiny is something like a train and if we do not get to the depot in time our train of destiny will run off and leave us, and we will have no destiny. There is destiny--that jar. If we are small we shall have a small destiny. If we are great we shall have a great destiny. We cannot dodge our destiny. Kings and Queens of Destiny
The objects in that jar cannot change their size. But thank God, you and I are not helpless victims of blind fate. We are not creatures of chance.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
"Short-circuited and burned out! Like a dynamo--like an electric light!"
"Destiny!" said Ventnor. "Destiny! Not yet was the hour struck for man to relinquish his sovereignty over the world. Destiny!"
We began to pick our way down the heaped debris and out upon the plain. For all that day and part of another we searched for an opening out of the Pit. Everywhere was the incredible calcification. The surfaces that had been the smooth metallic carapaces with the tiny eyes deep within them, crumbled beneath the lightest blow.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》
"'Fate' and 'destiny,'" said Vizard, "stuff and nonsense. We make our own destiny. Mine is to be eternally disappointed, and happiness snatched out of my hands."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
he replied, and I think with exact judgment, that when Jupiter gave Juno leave to withdraw Turnus from the present danger, it was because he certainly foreknew that his fatal hour was not come, that it was in destiny for Juno at that time to save him, and that himself obeyed destiny in giving her that leave.英文原著 · 《Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry》
so that there was no need of an apparition to fright Turnus, he had the presage within himself of his impending destiny. The Dira only served to confirm him in his first opinion, that it was his destiny to die in the ensuing combat. And in this sense are those words of Virgil to be taken -英文原著 · 《Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry》
I must question the cards as to his destiny, and know whether happiness or misery lies before him. Yes, I will summon my fortune-teller. There is a destiny which shapes our ends."英文原著 · 《Frederick the Great and His Family》