I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. Gertrude Stein
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. Arthur Helps
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. John Woolman
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Louis Kronenberger
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating. Alan Paton
When the sea turned to honey, the poor man lost his spoon. Gypsy Proverb