As much as one wishes to achieve something, the frailties of the human body often make it impossible.

An archipelago, commonwealth and dependent territory (technically, an unincorporated territory) of the United States in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

A province of Indonesia. Capital: Tanjung Pinang. Largest city: Batam.

A person who resides in or originates from Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Niue, Cook Islands or any other Pacific island.

A volcanic island in the Ross Sea near Antarctica.

Peace and quiet have great value. / Often the best choice is to say nothing.

(colloquial, rhetorical question) Am I the only one who thinks this?

A bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.

An expression critical of committees — which by analogy can extend to both group decision-making as well as abstract or unrelated managerialism — by emphasizing the weaknesses of incorporating too many conflicting and inexperienced opinions into a single project. The distinguishing features of a camel, including its humps, plate-shaped feet, habitual spitting, strange shape and poor temperament, are treated as the sort of deformities that typify a conflicted, or overly idealistic, design process.

(idiomatic) The roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such that the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged.