#shortest

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. ↗

— Earle Brown

#good #hands #head #lies #line

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#carry #case #challenge #concepts #cost

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. ↗

— Bobby Clarke

#humor #ill #puck #route #shortest

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commonly #fairer #foulest #life #much

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#big #big challenge #challenge #clothes #doing

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#day #english #first #half #heart

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#american jobs #energy #jobs #more #path

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#arriving #been #first #knowledge #lessons

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#gin #glory #great #happiest #lived