The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.