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First come, first served.
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When coming to sex: First served, first come.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
It'll be free, on a first-come, first-served basis.
MARGARET JONES
It's first-come, first-served now. It's not pro-rated anymore.
DAWN KEEZER
He who want to be served must first know how to serve.
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First come, first served, First Amendment. This is one of the few places where a community has the c...
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Whoever said "seek and you shall find" obviously never had an unfaithful spouse.
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There is no limit to how many participants can enter. First come, everybody served.
MADELINE CASTRO
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY
As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
LAURA OSNES
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We believe confirmation of reporting financials is a positive step in improving visibility.
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CSFB will be vigorously contesting the claim.
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Bottom line, it was hard to get excited as most of the demos focused on corporate or web/graphics or...
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The recent run up in prices should be enough to start demand retardation and to grind down prices ov...
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With the market deficit slowly being filled by the big three producers at increasing unit capital co...
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Investors will in our view naturally be concerned that the risk of referral has increased.
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This is not as bad as it may look.
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We are coming out now to show to the people that the young officers [who are against the government]...
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He who strikes first, strikes twice.
MEXICAN PROVERB
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to com...
BRAM STOKER
He that riseth first, is first drest.
GEORGE HERBERT
It's great to leave in first and come back to first.
CODY STINNETT
Education comes first before protesting.
DAVID LUJAN
The dog's happiness comes first.
GREG FORTE
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Its a chicken-and-egg argument as to which comes first.
JOE GILL
He was first spotted at our elite camp over the summer. He caught our eye ... he's come in and done ...
BOBBY CLARK
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First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!
RIC FLAIR
They come first.
RICHELLE MEAD
They come first
RICHELLE MEAD
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
E. P. THOMPSON
I love you, Lake," he smiles as he presses his forehead against mine. "You deserve to come first.
COLLEEN HOOVER
Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON
Which comes first, love or logic?
EPHDAN
Societal good comes first for me.
PAWAN KALYAN
School comes first in our house.
GINA MOSER
In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.
SHAMASH ALIDINA
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
AYRTON SENNA
Someone has said that the first soothsayer, the first prophet, was the first rascal who encountered ...
VOLTAIRE
Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who matte...
JAY ASHER
My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
LARAINE DAY
It doesn't matter where coming first is, I'd just be happy to come first,
DAVID MCKENZIE
(Page) was down 5-4 in that first set. If he doesn't come back and win that first set, this could ha...
BRAD JOYNER
Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHN GIELGUD
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
HAKEEM OLAJUWON
What usually comes first is the contract.
IRA GERSHWIN
My manager always preaches golf comes first.
BUBBA WATSON
The first in glory, as the first in place.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")
Accurst be he that first invented war.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Accursed be he that first invented war.
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AMY GREEN
The fool welcomes money first & the people run away,but the wise welcomes people first & then lastin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I want to be on that first team. But that comes with winning games, and that's my first priority.
DEANDRE JACKSON
First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the month...
DEYTH BANGER
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
HIRAM JOHNSON
Public right comes first and private interests second.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Not all that comes first are the best.
JOEL LOCKTA
My hockey comes first compared to everything else.
CASEY EASTHAM
He who is first in time has the prior right.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
Cricket is my first love.
YOHAN BLAKE
I waited for my first kiss.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN
My first love was basketball.
STAN SMITH
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
PABLO CASALS
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
CRAIG BRUCE
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
BILLY CONNOLLY
He loved his family and friends, gatherings. He especially adores his mother. First comes God, then ...
SHEIKH AHMAD
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL
Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first...
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What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated a...
GEORGE GROSZ
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
BERTOLT BRECHT
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
When the customer comes first, the customer will last
ROBERT HALF
One comes first, but it's never predictable which one.
JANEEN KOCONIS
The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote secon...
LOUIS LANE
He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
CHINESE PROVERB
He who laughs last has planned to tell the story first.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirk...
JOHANN VON GOETHE