Famous Quotes

"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."

Gijs de Vries on Travel

More quotes about Travel

• "It is better to travel well than to arrive."

  Buddha on Travel

• "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

  Maya Angelou on Travel

• "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."

  Thomas Jefferson on Travel

• "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Travel

• "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

  Saint Augustine on Travel

More quotes by Gijs de Vries

• "I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."

• "In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities."

• "In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

• "You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."

• "Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact."