"This way to the promised land", Globe and Mail (April 10, 2003)
“The word permanent... had its own kind of revenge on
those who misused it, for the Bible said that nothing was
permanent and everything came and went.”
To the Is-land, chap. 2, ‘‘In the Second Place’’, 1982
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“Nothing is permanent but change.”
“Everything is temporary, but memories are permanent.”
ITF Transport Outlook 2019, (May 22, 2019), OECD Publishing, ISBN 9282108309, 9789282108307

Letter published in The Tribune (25 December 1929) http://naxalrevolution.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/bhagat-singh-on-the-slogan-of-‘long-live-revolution’/
Context: One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.

“Women can do nothing that has permanence.”
The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
Tyranny of the Status Quo, San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980) p. 115

“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)