I realize how difficult it's going to be in this god-forsaken place where you can't find what you need, but there's the challenge.
Read more Colonel Nicholson QuotesFrom: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Queer bird... even for an American.
He's going to do it, believe me, he's really going to do it!
Maj. Warden: You'll go on without me. That's an order. You're in command now, Shears.Commander Shears: You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills - they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules - when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!... I'm not going to leave you here to die, Warden, because I don't care about your bridge and I don't care about your rules. If we go on, we go on together.