We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

High expectations are the key to everything.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.