“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I
Remarks to Theodor Wolff (5 February 1915), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 76
“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Variant: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
“I never would have thought being high in a zoo would lead to that.”
Jim Breuer (1967) American actor and comedian
Talking about the character of Goat Boy, in an interview on Mancow's Morning Madhouse
Unsourced
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
After hearing that his brother John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, TX, on 22 November 1963, as reported https://books.google.com/books?id=nsOlkJ7yVhMC&q=I+thought+they%27d+get+one+of+us%2C+but+Jack%2C+after+all+he%27s+been+through%2C+never+worried+about+it+I+thought+it+would+be+me.#v=snippet&q=%22I%20thought%20they%27d%20get%20one%20of%20us%22%20%22but%20Jack%2C%20after%20all%20he%E2%80%99d%20been%20through%2C%20never%20worried%20about%20it....%20I%20thought%20it%20would%20be%20me.%22&f=false by Ed Guthman in Peter Collier & David Horowitz's The Kennedys: An American Drama https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=intitle:%22The+Kennedys%22+inauthor:%22David+Horowitz%22+inauthor:%22Peter+Collier%22&num=50 (1984), ISBN 1893554317, p. 249
“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
“I was very, very surprised. I never thought I would be that loved or respected.”
Brian Wilson (1942) American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
CNN interview (2004)