Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
Judd Nelson

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.
Henry Peach Robinson

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
Sheilah Graham

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
Hjalmar Schacht

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
Kelly Preston

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Margaret Cho

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Richard Brautigan

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
Kit Bond

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
Steve Case

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.
Paul Cellucci

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
Ben Harper

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
Ernie Pyle